Saša Stanišić, whose prose has won numerous prestigious awards such as the Leipzig Book Fair Prize and the German Book Prize, is considered a significant literary voice and exceptional talent. His narrative style is characterized by immediacy and whimsical humor and is »a shining example of an immigrant’s poetry that
Three experts talk about the fine art of dribbling and Latin American football. Not only did they play with the ball for decades (Moritz Rinke still does today as a striker in the DFB national team), but as journalists they reported on the extremely dramatic events. Which Latin American football
Imaginative and poetic, Irene Solà tells of life and death in a mountain village in the Pyrenees. Not only people have their say; the author also gives a voice to animals, plants and the mountains. »This book is a true miracle. A many-voiced choral song, so full of imagination and
Climate crisis, pandemic, war: the world often causes fear and despair. Ece Temelkuran opposes this with a ten-point plan and shows an action-oriented way, based on determination and trust, to gain new hope and creative power. In doing so, she focuses not on a distant future, but on the here
With what military measures must Russia’s war in Ukraine be countered on the part of the West? Can the territories occupied by Russia be recaptured? If so, how? Are the delivery of heavy weapons and the declaration of a no-fly zone negligent measures that automatically provoke further escalation, or is
Bellingcat is an international research collective founded in 2014 that focuses on crimes against humanity and international conflicts – such as the downing of the MH17 airliner by the Russian military, the murder of opposition figures in Russia, or the use of Russian cluster bombs in Syria and Ukraine. The
The two scholars Glenn Loury and Joyce Nyairo will talk with the author and critic Thomas Chatterton Williams about topics such as racism, colonialism, state identity, and social movements, with reference to the African continent, and the dynamics of development there. The focus will also be on the question of
Green’s mother wants nothing more for her daughter than a man with whom she can start a family. However, Green is living with a woman. When she is forced to move back in with her mother for financial reasons, there is no way around the confrontation. Stubborn adherence to traditions
When Krishan learns that his grandmother’s housekeeper has died under unexplained circumstances, the young man travels to civil war-torn northern Sri Lanka for the funeral. Anuk Arudpragasam, »One of the most individual minds of their generation« [Financial Times], was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his moving reflection on the
»Lamento«, the latest novel by the multitalented artist Madame Nielsen, tells of a passionate and ultimately painful relationship between a writer and a theater producer, and of the impossibility of reconciling the magic of infatuation with daily life. »Madame Nielsen dissects the nature of love and infatuation, with disaster always
Along with historical digressions, quotations from Chinese classics and essayistic passages, this major political novel about contemporary China shows the development of individual characters in the resistance, but also criticizes European capitalism and Western arrogance. »The novel shows what it can mean to continue to hold on to hope for
More than 800,000 people fell victim to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Journalist and author Philip Gourevitch has traveled to the shattered country for nine consecutive years and traces the psychological aftermath of the genocide in his literary portraits of people from Rwanda. Anton Peez has explored questions of the
